PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 209 



28Tn June, 1904. 



Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Reports of excursions as follows were read: — (1) to Scalpsie 

 Bay, Bute, by Mr. J. Ballantyne; (2) to Inverkip, &c., by Mr. 

 John R. Lee; (3) to Castlemilk, by Mr. John Renwick (see 

 page 193). 



Mr. Alex. Ross exhibited two species of fly — Sericomyia 

 lappona, L., from South Bar, Renfrew, and S. borealis, Fallen, the 

 first not very common in our district. 



3Ir. John Renwick exhibited Hyoscyamus niger, L., from 

 Greenan, Ayrshire. 



Mr. Charles Kirk sent for exhibition a cream-coloured variety 

 of the common snipe {Gcdlinago coelestis (Frenzel) ) from Ivilfinan, 

 Loch Fyne. 



Mr. P. Ewing, F.L.S., exhibited Azalea procumbens, Desv., and 

 Arabis petrtea, Lamk., from Ben Doirrean. 



Mr. Alex. Ross, on behalf of Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt, read a 

 paper on " The Land Mammals of the Clyde Faunal Area " (see 

 page 170). 



Mr. John Renwick intimated that Mrs. Paxton, Richardland, 

 Kilmarnock, had presented to the Society, as a memorial of her 

 husband, a set of lantern slides prepared by him, and illus- 

 trating Ayrshire Trees. Mr. Paxton, who joined this Society in 

 1895, died recently at Bournemouth. As a member of various 

 philosophical, photographic, and natural history societies his 

 expertness as a photographer brought him into prominence, and 

 the excellence of his work in the illustration of trees, either as 

 whole subjects or in such details as sprays, bark, is well known. 

 A number of his pictures of the remarkable trees of Ayrshire 

 has been reproduced in our Transactions and those of kindred 

 societies. On the motion of the President (Mr. Ewing), it was 

 agreed to send an expression of the sympathy of the Society in 

 the great loss Mrs. Paxton had sustained in the death of her 

 gifted husband, and to convey the thanks of the Society for 

 her kind sift. 



30th August, 1904. 

 Mr. Peter Ewing, F.L.S., President, in the chair. 

 Reports of excursions to the Heads of Ayr, Auchenmade, and 



